Tucson’s Architectural Heritage: Past, Present and Future with R. Brooks Jeffery / Program, September 6, 2012
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Life, Family and the Arizona Mining Community: A Gendered Perspective with Dr. Anna O’Leary / Program, March 6, 2012
Talk – ‘Life, Family and the Arizona Mining Community: A Gendered Perspective |UA News…
Anna Ochoa O’Leary, a professor in the University of Arizona department of Mexican American and Raza Studies, delivers the closing lecture held in conjunction with “Company Town: Arizona’s Copper Mining Communities During 100 Years of Statehood,” an exhibition at the Science-Engineering Library. The lecture will be titled “Life, Family and the Arizona Mining Community: A Gendered Perspective.”
Professor Ochoa O’Leary lived in Clifton, Ariz. during the copper mine strike of 1983. Ochoa O’Leary was also the president of the Morenci Miners Women’s Auxiliary in Clifton from 1985 to 1986. According to Ochoa O’Leary, the strike forever changed the lives of families who experienced it, as well as the social nexus that helped define the Clifton-Morenci communities.
The great Arizona copper strike against Phelps Dodge was a three-year struggle that ended with the decertification of 13 unions in 1986. During the course of events, the women of the community stepped outside the traditional roles that for generations had centered on the procurement and distribution of material resources to families. Faced with new challenges but encouraged by politics of equality, the women of the Morenci Miners Women’s Auxiliary came to contribute to political mobilization that received local, national and international attention.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE ALSO:
*March 6, 2012: Life, Family and the Arizona Mining Community | Special Collections
*Transcript of Dr. O’Leary’s lecture (from Barriozona website)
40 Years of Tucson Meet Yourself: An Evening with Jim Griffith / Program, September 12, 2013
“Join us for the opening lecture of Special Collections newest exhibition “40 Years of Tucson Meet Yourself” on Sept. 12 from 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The evening includes a discussion about the early days of Tucson Meet Yourself featuring Dr. Jim Griffith, retired UA professor, former director of the Southwest Center and founder and former director of Tucson Meet Yourself.
A panel of notable festival volunteers and friends, including Dan Madden, Loma Griffith, Debbie Friesen, Fred Klein, Richard Morales and Gary Tenen, will also share stories and reminiscences of Tucson Meet Yourself from its earliest days and how it evolved into the largest folk life festival in the Southwest.
This lecture will be at Special Collections. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Bob Diaz at diazj@u.library.arizona.edu.”
Listen to the program audio here:
40 Years of Tucson Meet Yourself: Folklife and Culture, with Dr. Maribel Alvarez / Program, November 19, 2013
The second program associated with this exhibition featured Dr. Maribel Alvarez, professor of Anthropology and executive director of the Southwest Folklife Alliance.
Here is the news release for the event:
“40 Years of Tucson Meet Yourself: Folklife and Culture”
Date: November 19, 2013
Times: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Special Collections
Contact: Bob Diaz
Description:
Join us for the final lecture accompanying Special Collections’ current exhibition, “40 Years of Tucson Meet Yourself.” Maribel Alvarez, research professor for the UA Southwest Center and Tucson Meet Yourself program director, will share stories of Tucson’s folklife and culture and how they manifest themselves in every day life.
The following biographical snapshot of Dr. Alvarez is borrowed from the University of Arizona Southwest Center’s webpage:
“Maribel Alvarez, Ph.D., is an anthropologist, folklorist, curator, and community arts expert who has documented the practice of more than a dozen of the country’s leading emerging and alternative artistic organizations. She is Associate Dean for Community Engagement for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is the Jim Griffith Chair in Public Folklore and Associate Research Social Scientist in the Southwest Center, and Associate Research Professor in the School of Anthropology. She founded, and until recently served as executive director of the Southwest Folklife Alliance, an independent nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arizona.
She teaches courses on methods of cultural analysis, with particular emphasis on objects, oral narratives, foodways, and visual cultures of the US-Mexico border. In the last few years, Maribel has written and published essays about poetry and food, intangible heritage, nonprofits and cultural policy, the theory of arts participation, artisans and patrimony in Mexico, and popular culture and stereotypes. In 2009 she was a Fulbright Fellow conducting research in rural Mexico. Maribel was the co-founder and executive director for seven years of MACLA–Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, a contemporary, alternative urban arts center in San Jose, once described as a “lab for intelligent cultural interventions.” Maribel is a trustee of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress; in addition, she has served as faculty for ten years at the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture’s summer Leadership Institute in San Antonio, TX. Currently, she is completing two book manuscripts for the University of Arizona Press, one on the verbal arts and lore of workers in the Mexican Curios cottage industry at the US-Mexico border, and another on the cultural history of wheat and flour mills in the state of Sonora in northern Mexico. Maribel was born in Cuba and came to the United States at the age of seven; she lived in Puerto Rico for eleven years before moving to California in 1980, where she became active in the Chicano arts community and multicultural arts movement of that decade.”
